From: Rahul Lakkireddy
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:35:52 +0530
> Patch 1 adds API to vmcore module to allow drivers to register callback
> to collect the device specific hardware/firmware logs. The logs will
> be added to /proc/vmcore as elf notes.
>
> Patch 2 updates read and mmap logic to appen
On production servers running variety of workloads over time, kernel
panic can happen sporadically after days or even months. It is
important to collect as much debug logs as possible to root cause
and fix the problem, that may not be easy to reproduce. Snapshot of
underlying hardware/firmware stat
